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Man's society is an ecology that forces adaptation to it.

— Philip K. Dick The Variable Man (1952)

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Source: "The Variable Man" (1952), The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick, v.1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1987)
Work: The Variable Man, 1952
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